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encampment

[en-kamp-muhnt] / ɛnˈkæmp mənt /
NOUN
camp
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The emergency order allows providing notice to take place the same day as an encampment is cleared.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 14, 2026

By the fourth quarter of 2025, 80% of Inside Safe encampment operations — 36 out of 45 — involved areas that had repopulated, records show.

From Los Angeles Times Aug. 9, 2026

For the first live test of an atomic weapon, an unusual encampment sprung up in the New Mexico desert.

From The Wall Street Journal Aug. 7, 2026

For a few hours, the encampment comes alive again.

From BBC Aug. 7, 2026

Cange no longer looked like a miserable encampment of refugees, Farmer thought dryly, just a typical, extremely poor Haitian village.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French




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